Our Family Trip to Tulsa

Saturday we went to Tulsa. I have been looking for a new vehicle but haven't found one that is in our price range or has everything I am wanting. So we had decided to try to take Gage so he could go to Incredible Pizza.

We left around 7:30 am saturday and headed south. We checked out several car lots till around noon then headed for Incredible Pizza.

Neither of us had ever been there so we didn't know what to expect but it was really nice. The eating section was seperate from the play area so we ate the buffet then went and played. Here are a few pictures.

Gage was finally tall enough to take his first go cart ride. He loved it and I did get pictures but since they were going pretty fast they all came out blurry.

How hard is it to poop in the potty?!

We have had a couple of insidents at our house recently that I wasn't going to post...until now. We have been trying to use the potty chair more often. Gage will use it to go potty when I take him to it but when asking him "Do you need to potty?" the answer is always "no".

About two weeks ago Gage was taking a bath and was calling us to the bathroom (i was changing the laundry) so Allen went in to find that he had pooped in the tub but not only pooped in the tub had already sifted it out with his cup and handed the cup to Allen!

Last week once again I was changing the laundry and he hollared so I went in the bathroom to find poop sitting on the edge of the tub!

What is wrong with this! Disgusting!! I try to tell him how gross it is but I don't think he cares.

This morning at 6:00 a.m. my son comes in the bedroom saying this:
whispering

Gage- "Mama...Mama"
Jen-"What"
Gage-"Mama I pooped"
Jen-"Okay,you poop in your diaper?"
Gage-"ugh ha."
Jen-"Okay go to your room we will change your diaper" I then walk to his room while Gage is Slowly coming from behind
Jen-"Gage get in your room right now! Why is there poop on the floor!"
Gage-"dug it out"
Jen-"What? You dug it out of your diaper?!"

(REMEMBER THIS IS 6 AM HE WOKE ME UP)

Gage-"Yeap.. Here Mama"
Gage then hands me more poop he carried to our room!
Jen-"Gage that is disgusting don't ever dig in your diaper!" etc.
then you can pretty much tell the rest of my morning this morning.

Any suggestions would be great on teaching my son 1. how to be potty trained 2. how gross it is that he touches his poop!

Rain, Rain Go Away

Well its rained and rained and rained! We woke up yesterday trying to figure out something to do this weekend instead of being stuck in the house all weekend long. I googled what was going on at the Tulsa Expo Center and they were having miniture horse showing going on which wasn't what we were looking for! We ended up going to Springfield MO to visit the Bass Pro Shop. Gage had fun looking at the BIG BEAR. He also viewed the snakes, fish, turtles and ducks. If you ask him what he seen he'll say " Snake and Sharks". Right when we walked in the big sign said museum and aquarium closed till next spring so we didn't get to see very much which was a little disappointing. Gage really liked trying out all the big boats and four wheelers. After that we drived around Springfield trying find me a new vehicle but none of the car lots had used vehicles like the one I am looking for. We went and ate at Texas Road House (one of my favorites) and waited around 1 hour to eat. Gage was as good as could be expected for that kind of wait. Our meal was very good. It was around 8 p.m. when we finished eating so we headed for home. I think Gage had a good time but now I know we won't drive all the way to Springfield again for a really long time.

Today we aren't doing anything but relaxing. I made cookies and salt & vinegar pickles. That's about our day and I don't see much more happening.

Another Busy Weekend

Well it has been a little busy here lately at home. Here has been the exciting stuff going on here lately.

August 5 we came home to find a sand pile for the swimming pool. Gage loved playing on this. All week long every night we would come home to play on sand mountain.

August 9th our swimming pool was installed. It was close to 100 degrees for a few weeks until we installed our pool. Now the temperature has been around 80 degrees so its been too cold to actually enjoy.

August 12 was Coffeyville Derby. Allen did make it to the finals but finished 6th. Of course top 5 got paid!

August 14 Allen thought it would be a really good idea for us to have a hot tub too to go with our new swimming pool! So he went and bought one.

August 15 The building of the deck started. Hot tub delivered.

August 16 Allen had some friends over through out the day to help him complete the deck. I had planned on grilling out for the guys and Gage and I catering to all their needs (like we would be help. ha ha) but Gage decided he had other plans like being sick. He woke up Friday night with a 102 temperature and we were up for a couple of hours and watched the olympics till about 2:30 am and then he fell asleep. Then he was awake again at 7 am temperature and all and we layed in bed till around 8 am. He was starting to feel better and wanted to go outside and watch daddy so we did. Then around 10 am he was fussing around quit a bit and I asked him if he wanted to go watch "Cars" and that made him happy. You could sure tell he didn't feel good at all. It is not like my child to crawl up in the recliner with pillow and blankey and actually watch a movie. He fell asleep about 15 minutes into it. I took his temp. around 11:15 am and it was 103 degrees! That scares me! I called the hospital and they said they couldn't talk to me or give me any suggestions over the phone. Since when did this change? Everyone used to call up there I thought! Well we made it thru and that evening his fever finally quit doing the roller coaster ride and Sunday he was fussy but not too bad considering the day he had saturday.

August 17 got up made pancakes, turkey bacon and eggs for breakfast. Then the 3 of us went out to finish the deck. We had the deck done and all the mess cleaned up by noon. It was nice to have the deck done and mess picked up and tools delivered back to their owners and still had 1/2 a day to do other things. Kelli and Kylie came over Sunday afternoon to swim and enjoy the hot tub. The pool was pretty cold but getting in the hot tub and sweating till you can't stand it any more then jumping into the pool was perfect! Gage thought the pool was too cold but I let him sit on the hot tub and put his feet on the jets and he thought that was pretty cool.

Last night we ran up to Walmart and went out and ate at Chinese Chef. Pretty boring evening but had to go get groceries and all those exciting things you couldn't live without from Walmart.

Tonight I hope to hang Gage's stuff up in his room. His walls are still really blan and boring. I hope to take pictures of his room tonight after everything is hung and will post pictures tomorrow.

Another Crash & Bash Weekend

Gage enjoying the derby while Ken watches on.


Gage, Allen and Racey posing in front of the 1994 Crown Vic
Allen took 1st place with Friday night.


We had another exciting weekend. Friday night was the 80's and newer cars at the 97th Annual Labette County Fair and Allen won 1st place! He was so excited. (Chris Steig came in second and Charles Billman 3rd) He had never won until Friday night at the LC Fair for the full size division. Saturday night was compacts and he took first also with his Pacer. (Ken McNickle second place and Cody Julich third).

Erie Derby

So we went to Erie Derby Sunday and it was extremely HOT! Gage was really good and Allen won 3rd place. Ryan Stewart took 2nd and Nick Earlacker won. We were happy with the results. It was a good feature I thought with some hard hits.

10 year Anniversary

Kelli came over Friday evening and kept Gage so Allen and I could get away for the night to hang out and spend some time togather. We decided not to go to Grove but to go down to Tulsa. We got to Tulsa about 5:30 p.m. and started off at the mall. I have been wishing for an anniversary ring for our 10 year wedding anniversary for a long time. So at the mall we shopped for a ring and by the time we hit all the stores I think Allen had seen about all the rings he could handle. So I had picked out about 3 and he had looked at one in Parsons to surprise me with actually and so I let him make the decision...drum roll please.............

I love it!

While we were at the mall I bought some Asics running shoes since i'm trying to jog/walk/run in the mornings. Allen bought him some new sunglasses. After all that we were done.

We left there not sure where we were spending the night so after a few phone calls we found a hotel and went to eat at the Texas Road House. There was like a 1 1/2 hour wait so we settled for Lone Star Steak House. It was very good. We headed back for the night to the hotel around 10p.m. and called it a night.

Saturday morning we got up at 7:30 a.m. (I had planned on sleeping in but we were both wide awake) so we got up and left and ate at Krispy Kreme donuts. YUMMY! We started to head for home and we stopped and looked at a few Yukon/Tahoe's that we seen.

Got home at noon in time for Allen to go to work. Gage and Kelli seemed to have had a good time and he didn't even miss us! I was a bit sad that when we walked in the door there was no " MAMA, DADA" excitement.

It was really nice just to get away for the evening and spend time together. I can't believe our 10 year anniversary has come and gone.
Thanks Kelli for keeping Gage!